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March Jobs Number: “We Are Turning The Corner”
The March unemployment number is in and—surprise!—not much has changed. The news was mostly positive: the DOL figures show a net gain of 162,000 jobs during March, but that figure wasn’t enough to...
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How Disappointing Were May’s Unemployment Figures?
What do we make of today’s jobs report? On the surface, it seems like good news all around: 431,000 new jobs in May, and the unemployment rate dipping back down to 9.7 percent. Nothing to complain...
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Is the Unemployment Number on the Road to Recovery?
A reason to be cheerful about the future of the economy from the folks at NPR: freight traffic is up significantly since this time last year and “has climbed back to where it was just before the...
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Vault Poll Finds Low Expectations for Economic Recovery in 2010
With the state of the economy and the question of whether we’re actually witnessing a recovery becoming ever more pressing, the results of a recent Vault poll are far from encouraging. Some 61 percent...
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The Job Market Stays Flat: This Week in Employment
Employment-related news hasn’t been difficult to come by this week; the fevered speculation over the August jobs report made sure of that. As it turned out, the report was neither as good or as bad as...
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A Second Stimulus, and Bad News for the Finance Industry: This Week in...
If one thing has become clear over the last week, it’s that the road to the midterm election is going to be a long, long, slog—especially for those of us who have set up alerts for the words “economy”...
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The Politics of the Unemployment Number: This Week in Employment
Let’s start with the big one. The piece of data that would sway the electorate one way or the other in the upcoming elections, determining once and for all which party knows best when it comes to job...
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